The undergraduate major, undergraduate minor and the graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies

· Include courses by College faculty whose research and teaching draw from women's and gender studies

· Encourage students to consider how gender affects women and men in all parts of life

· Introduce students to histories and accomplishments of women

· Help further skills and awareness needed for careers in the arts, business, education, journalism, law, science, and social services.

Courses

· Focus on how women's and men's experiences within history, society, and culture are shaped by their gendered positions and how these gendered positions in turn shape women's and men's responses and reactions to experiences

· Examine institutional structures and structures of power in terms of their implications for women and men as gendered beings

· Engage with the established field of women's and gender studies and the body of scholarship it has produced over the last 30 years

· Address ways in which a focus on women and gender allows for the rethinking of the given scholarly field or discipline.

Recent courses have included:

Women & Christianity; Psychology of Gender; Gender & Communication; Intro. to Feminist Philosophy; American Women: Historical Perspectives; Sociology and Gender; American Women Poets; Women Writers and the Novel; Women's Voices in Hispanic Literature; Women and Art; African-American Literature & Gender.